As the HIV/Aids crisis in the region deepens, it is adding to the social decay in Zimbabwe Mercedes Sayagues Zimbabwe was billed as a peaceful country, with low crime and racial tension – far safer than South Africa. A constitutional referendum took place in February without any violence. Today, mob rule and terror reign. How […]
destructing Mercedes Sayagues The owners of the town house I rent ring early on Monday morning. Their neighbour Allen Dunn was tortured and killed by a hit squad Sunday afternoon on his farm in Beatrice, 40km from Harare. Can I vacate the house in two days? They are panicking. My mouse crashed on the floor. […]
unveiled Sarah Bullen It was fortuitously good timing for Gensec to launch its new investment in a week when the markets watched, white-knuckled, as the currency dipped to stomach-lurching lows. Particularly as the unit trusts the company unveiled, ahead of a marketing blitz aimed at the rand-phobic South African investor, promise to take your money […]
Forget soppy R&B and angry hip-hop – feisty Irish pop-rockers the Cranberries are in town Riaan Wolmarans In the mid-Nineties, you could not go to any decent alternative or rock club without, at some time during the evening, hearing the crashing opening chords of the Cranberries’ powerful song Zombie. Then, people would scurry to the […]
Andrew Worsdale Local films will be represented at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, even if they were produced and directed by foreigners. Leading the pack in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival is The King is Alive, which screens on Friday night. The film is a co-production by Lars von Trier’s Danish company […]
Who better than David Ginola to replace Princess Diana as the Red Cross’s ambassador on landmine control? On the eve of his trip to Cambodia, the Gallic glory boy talks to Denis Campbell The dark sunglasses, non- descript grey clothes and floppy hat pulled down over his eyes are a poor disguise. Almost everyone in […]
Andy Colquhoun RUGBY Picking a Springbok squad for the coming tests against England and Canada has probably been as difficult as shooting fish in a barrel. Once Nick Mallett and his panel of Francois Davids and Wynand Claassen had swept aside the belly-up Sharks and Bulls bobbing about uselessly on the surface, they’d have found […]
Jane Martinson AUnited States judge has dealt a blow to Napster by ruling that the upstart song- swapping company should stand trial for alleged copyright infringement. If found liable, the firm, which employs only 18 people, could be liable for millions of dollars in damages. The decision against Napster, in a case brought by the […]
Donna Block The rand was slaughtered this week as local investors fled the markets amid fears that the political and economic chaos playing itself out in Zimbabwe will spread into South Africa. The currency started to recover on Wednesday when President Thabo Mbeki, taking questions from MPs in Parliament, promised that the government would make […]
Jubie Matlou Moutse Community Radio is a station in transition. Serving the sprawling rural villages of Dennilton in Mpumalanga, it started out as the modest operation of a group of rural women, but has become a political football as others jostle for a share in its success. The station, ordered to broaden its appeal, has […]